Ben Jonson Quotes

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

Don't be afraid of change, because it is leading you to a new beginning.

Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?

I think I probably have the philosophy of a poor man. You know, like maybe I'd steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes.

I had to steal to survive.

I was starving before I hit Journey. Very, very rough times... I didn't know where the next pay check was gonna come.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee.

There is a certain relief in change even though it be from bad to worse.

In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one

I did just about anything to pay the rent for a while.

If I had been brilliant or a genius, I wouldn't have needed to break the law just to survive.

I eventually turned the fridge and freezer off - they were empty anyway - and the boiler, desperate to save money, shocking myself awake in the morning with the shortest, coldest showers, and boiling a kettle of water twice a week to bath my young son.

When we came to this country, unfortunately, my father lost his job, and we were this close to destitution. We were put on food stamps. We were put in public housing.

Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.

When we were growing up, we were so poor that our heritage was the only thing we had. Mama would say, 'Kids, pour more water in the soup. Better days are coming.'

Ultimately, I think people are so hopeful for having some joy in life that is really hard to find. You can't make a living, and the idea of doing one small bank robbery or something, just trying to find your way in a life, finding your footing and ending up behind bars.

Hope is the poor man's bread.

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

Down to my last dime and coming apart at the seams. I'm messed up in Mexico, living on refried dreams.

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from the door.

Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.